Is There Software Available to Scan for Corrupt Drives Within a RAID Array?
I’ve been seeing symptoms of hard drive corruption recently. Programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Traktor DJ Studio 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Call of Duty: Black Ops have been crashing, giving errors about incomplete/corrupted data.
I’m running a RAID0 setup for my system drive, with 2 x 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue drives, using my Asus mobo’s integrated RAID controller. The BIOS RAID utility shows the array as healthy. I also tested the RAM with memtest86+ and it checked out fine. When I run chkdsk using the Windows 7 recovery console, it finishes and it seems like there are no errors, but I can’t really tell what the results of chkdsk mean to be honest. For all I know it may have fixed the corruptions and I just need to reinstall the damaged program files.
Are there any software packages which can scan for corruption and other problems with my drives, and tell me which drive is the culprit if its just one of them? I have no qualms about reinstalling Windows, all my apps and replacing a drive if its faulty…I’d just rather not replace both, if only one of them is damaged (or neither!)
Cheers
Frostfire: RAIDs do not work in that way. To Windows (and chkdsk), these 2 drives appear as ONE volume (just C:), and cannot be scanned separately. That’s why I’m asking for specialist piece of software which can scan them as individual drives to find out if one is damaged, or both. If you know how to identify from chkdsk whether a hard disk is irreparably corrupted or not, that might be useful.
Run Chkdsk.exe. Open the DOS console and type in Chkdsk C:, this will check C:, then run it again on D:.